AMD today announced a new business focused on developing and licensing graphics core technologies to semiconductor manufacturers throughout the handheld industry.

The new AMD IP licensing initiative combines engineering expertise, AMD graphics technology, and application developer and publisher support to deliver solutions for the development of low-power 2D and 3D graphics on mobile phones.

STMicroelectronics has licensed AMD graphics technology, including 2D, 3D and vector graphics core engines, as well as related software compliant with OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG 1.0 standards. STMicroelectronics intends to combine AMD?s handheld unified shader architecture graphics technology with its Nomadik platform.

AMD is driving new graphics standards, such as OpenGL ES 2.0 and OpenVG 1.0, to accelerate the transformation of graphics for handheld devices.